teachers let the students and that will and that will decrease kind may not necessarily end in many kinds of things and that's. the of the and. and this is our first task as a society keeping our children safe this is how we will be judged and then grant good way for a. grant said i think there should be some changes we should learn from what happened at sandy hook i feel really bad in the month since twenty precious children and six brave adults were violent taken from us at sandy hook elementary more than nine hundred of our fellow americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun so i'm putting forward

a specific set of proposals as important as these steps are they are in no way a substitute for action from members of congress. if. you have two thoughts you know jean she did forty five long colt you know i stand by or you could have fourteen shots you know that i can to not have first mad and have a little fun if you. want but they can have you know safest dark house you know at corners and stuff like that wide areas raw you know they're the only ones in the house somebody is not supposed to be here you know they've got a gun it's not as we're going to bring these a shotgun and not have as much recall but without enough spread that you think i heard shots i didn't know but it was really interesting. in america you're you know if you're an american citizen and depending on where you live now i said california

new york they have a lot of restrictions enemy is around our country seems to be kind of being you know the level of restriction which started you know sort of a feel that's right certain people don't necessarily agree with it but rather here being lazy and we're still you know pretty pretty happy for second mineral rights so we kind of try to protect them but try to be responsible same time you know if you're registered citizen and. wheezy and you can get i mean we've seen residents pretty much status quo all across the u.s. you have to have a resident of that state to be in by now a long gun which is a rifle or shotgun like you think you have a here your fine you can you can buy those out of state. not not a real big issue but still have to have you know valid driver's license or and there were id and be able to pass a background check which we call that into the f.b.i. needs. since the founding of our country i mean guns have been necessary for

hunting purposes for gathering our food is this kind of passed down from generation to generation that's this kind of part of what we do here is there is a haunting culture. i think for kids growing up in this environment is good for them at an early age we see the gun and respect it because they need to know what kind of damage it can do and so in a haunting environment like that we are at all from a very young age i was told go in safety and so the only way to teach gun safety is to be around the gun. i'll show you that it's that day whenever you get in a to rob telling me mom who's been in detroit this might be clean let's get a rose q first do with last issue here but if you picture says they're going to kill off our snoopy don't care marketers deal with all six of us picture every

single shuttle is the reason that the young great you and. you know this is not this my wife this is my oldest daughter calories and this is my youngest r.k. obviously that was several years ago that categorizes want to just kill her first new year. as i started me on and on they think it's your own they enjoy it. when big sister kills one in the live situation she did i get. how many other two years i have to hear get her to kill one. right that's right in fact you can't get the. era back carol don't.

get it. i've never owned a gun in my life. we also have small children in the house at deaths not something that i think either my wife nor i feel comfortable with and having a gun in a house in the same house that they're small children in case they were to able in case they were able to get ahold of the gun. you know something accidental could happen. how do i feel about living in a place where there are a lot of guns around. it doesn't bother me in the least i probably was less aware of. how many people own guns in this area i mean i knew there was a lot of hunters in in gun owners but probably in the wake of the connecticut tragedy so i really became aware that there are probably people all over this this

town that have guns. i don't feel any less safe because there are guns all over this community in fact i probably feel more safe because i'm sure if bad guys come they probably know there's a lot of people who are gun owners in this area. they don't necessarily know that i don't have a gun and they may make the assumption that i i do own a gun or i own a rifle that might make them hesitate about coming through here or trying to do something bad. to my family. like if you had an opportunity to shoot this gun you know. ok. now would you like to feel like you know i have my browning a five year yeah. i like you how long did you have that. comma ok and you used mainly for skeet or do you use it for duck conning or falling or

well oh shoot through it. ok. so you put three shells in their own hole in the war oh you only need one up. already and go into the i don't say feel. good. shot. if you know. this is what we call skeet shooting some people call it trap shooting . basically what it is is that mechanism that mr reckless the seed of don't right there will swing the skeet into the air the skeet as you can see is one of these little foreign discs that fly. their pain adoring presumably so that you

can see if they're in the air they crumble like that of course if there is a shotgun shell they'll shatter as you've seen some of them do. it any rate it's trying to get better at shooting birds whether it be dog. turkeys. geese it's one of their you can bet money you know if it's here or not again bumper. so they will for it it's a shooting and they misses. loose balls and if the next target you know they must point to the whale and plus points for what can bet money. go ahead and sell is an adamant object and doesn't have morals that i have here or it doesn't make decisions. and can be used for evil world can be used good.

or bad people get ahold gone's they use them for evil and good people with guns stop those that. is the way. this is not a soul shall make a difference a. gun ban all you know if all it does is take away from. people like us who want to go out for the sport of. the bible got a lot of water to get the right here. this is what life mississippi river coming up one of our favorite life behind here which is what we call the band it was named after my dad because he put it on my handy. one of. your stand the was down here on this farm and we're very proud of it it's it's usually a sure shot for bill in the. small box of. toys

but you know to make sure there's no loss. or rattlesnakes from. the founding fathers we've already made all. the second and then we'll grade you later militia being necessary to the preservation of the free state the right to keep and bear arms shall not be afraid. now. fault is that when they wrote that when they put that in the constitution is the second amendment they were talking about recreational firearms. they were talking about giving people of faith true means to resist fear and invasion and other things like. so from that standpoint would it be right to regulate assault rifles which. i don't

think anyone here would debate the fact that that's a much more effective means of resisting tyranny rebutting an invasion then a two seventy or a twelve gauge shotgun. but i mean you know how many times this country's been subjugated by. never. write. this true.

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home. was. in the thirty's the japanese government was taken over by the radical militant japanese soldiers and they had many meetings about invading the united states and admiral yamamoto who was the admiral that put together the pearl harbor attack he was a brilliant man and you kid at harvard. you know our city he knew america and he said you could never invade america americans have so many

guns there would be an american behind every tree with a gun if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence. if there's even one life that can be saved how you stay in the role well regulated militia ridout what military grade firearms the magazines has worked purchase you know the guns are out there over ninety percent of all gun crimes are committed was stolen guns all americans have reportedly died at the end of the gun yes no i deal with gun owners in america i think it was elizabeth who no. one fortunately the got it and sandy hook he didn't have a background check when he shot his mother and i had her going to. their back door regulation and look at australia and great britain and at some point it will be lead to confiscation and disarming people what is its lone drawn out process but it's only going in one direction the americans have never trusted the government.

two hundred years ago the second amendment as i understand it was put forward as a kind of a check and balance to keep the government in check. i don't know how many people distrust of the government two hundred years ago but i don't trust the government today and i think there's an awful lot of people feel that same way i hate to say that but. it's just reality one of the big arguments you hear you know is the only thing that gun control would do is disown honest people and keep going in the hands of criminals because a lot of you know people who are committing these crimes not to be able to connecticut but the main is forces robberies and homicides and or things like that have the guns illegally anyway so you're taking you know our people who comply with that lawless are faced with you know people that respect. well people who are already honest people that should be worried about have to go on the for them whether they're illegal or not people that. are going to get it just like any other

kind of drug or anything like that somebody also bad enough they're going to find a way to get it back you know when you're ready in that direction is there anything in between you or the wall about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here i had a r.'s four rows down for rows across and with everything going on in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is plugging in and purchasing right away or someone they say as against fire are. going to great job for us i don't know. maybe there should be a third. it's

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in the. room in some ways today everybody so good are going to control as a result of this you know i think as a christian we miss that we miss the narrative we let the world have the story the narrative and it goes in the direction that someone else wants and we should we should keep this focus on on jesus i think we get we get sidetracked we want to argue about guns or argue about you know religion is right things are good person should just start let's let's start the ball rolling in a new direction let's not wait for it to come from someone else and let's let's be loving let's be helpful and because we don't have enough of that in america we've created space for other things to fill the vacuum i think guns are necessary but i think the right people should have them and i guess that the. sort of legislators to find out who can and cannot based on their health and also based on. the

knowledge the. basically just based on the ability to have something like this i think it's necessary for protecting ourselves but not everyone should have the right to have it there was how realistic is the american public when it comes to the whole issue of gun control i think the public and is quite realistic will take a look at this while the public clearly favors gun control and you see here they hit the five percent favor gun control forty four percent opposed so that quite a hefty eleven point margin there when you ask the question of whether you believe that gun control is actually going to fare violence in this country looking to buy i don't want to one margin people also say exactly no not this alone is not going to fix a problem they understand that there are a lot of factors. to go into this including how you deal with crazy people who would do such a thing in the mental health system and they understand that the laws that were

proposed today would not have been taught the adam lanza problem that he didn't follow larger issue that has a lot of factors that need to be considered. so i think it's it's a well meaning thing to say well large capacity magazines are bad and we got to do away with those or so-called assault rifles no one's ever really defined an assault rifle to me to my satisfaction any rifle could be used as a as an assault rifle but the point is that ninety nine percent of the people use them lawfully i shoot my so-called assault rifle i love to shoot and they're fun

they're accurate they're great but i would never use them to harm anyone ok. all right. so you know yes everybody got your muscle and. had. russian. clear. although i'm all in favor of adequate. gun control laws and in the united states there are twenty thousand gun control laws on the books as we speak twenty thousand different laws in all the different states if you're a madman or you're like one of these shooters it aurora or this most recent

mass occurred murder at newtown connecticut if you are so mentally ill. that you perv oblio want to commit suicide but they want to take out a lot of people and do it in a big grandiose way and get a lot of attention on c.n.n. and the world press and all that. if if you want to do that there's no laws. on the planet that will keep you from doing this i think that when we're talking about these mass shootings that have occurred i think it's less of their against and more about restricting access. for people who are obviously mentally ill that's our old other issue how do we deal with our mentally ill population. over the last fifty or sixty years there's been a big movement to be institutionalized a lot of people

a lot of mental health hospital closed. i never knew adam lanza in person but i was in the same high school as that and he was younger than me just a little bit younger and you know i saw this kid walking around the halls he was i always thought he was different i always into something funny he rarely talked he wore big big clothes other people's and were very baggy clothes he was close to law he walked very very quickly we didn't really talk as the pension and you know he was a shy kid. he was just a shy shy kid and that's all i ever thought i don't know of anyone who is friends with him i also don't know of anyone who's particularly mean to him but what i do know is that it was very clear that this person was not like everybody else and no one really did anything to reach out to him if we took time to recognize this person's mental health then maybe this he could have stopped it rather than having to. keep guns away from people i think that if there if it was more difficult to

get guns then maybe this would not have happened maybe it was more difficult to get guns and would not have been able to kill twenty six people however even if he couldn't get guns that wouldn't make him a different person he still would have had his problems he still would've had his troubles he still would have been different so while stopping guns might be helpful to read this sort of thing it's not going to prevent these kinds of people in order to prevent these kinds of people we have to apply. steeper. i can't imagine the level of mental illness that would be present to murder children and i'm fortunately it will happen again i don't think there's any question people emulate it they they see these violent movies and films and video cames and i think they emulate what they see and the lines get blurred between. fantasy and reality. the.

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